New Section 1. There is hereby
created the vital statistics mainte-
nance fee fund in the state treasury which shall be administered by
the
secretary of health and environment. All expenditures from the
vital sta-
tistics maintenance fee fund shall be to help finance the
implementation
of and to maintain the vital statistics integrated information
system. All
expenditures from the vital statistics maintenance fee fund shall
be made
in accordance with appropriation acts upon warrants of the director
of
accounts and reports issued pursuant to vouchers approved by the
sec-
retary of health and environment or by the secretary's
designee.

Sec. 2. K.S.A. 2000 Supp. 65-2418
is hereby amended to read as
follows: 65-2418. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section,
the
secretary shall fix and charge the fees, if any, to be paid for
certified copies
of certificates or for search of the files or records when no
certified copy
is made. Fees for certified copies of certificates shall be fixed
by rules
and regulations of the secretary except that the fee for the first
copy of a
birth or death certificate shall include a $3 surcharge and the fee
for each
additional copy of the same birth or death certificate requested at
the
same time shall include a $1 surcharge. The secretary shall not
charge
any fee for a certified copy of a certificate or for a search of
the files or
records if the certificate or search is requested by a person who
exhibits
correspondence from the United States veterans administration or
the
Kansas commission on veterans' affairs which indicates that the
person is
applying for benefits from the United States veterans
administration and
that such person needs the requested information to obtain such
benefits,
except that, for a second or subsequent certified copy of a
certificate or
search of the files requested by the person, the usual fee shall be
charged.
The secretary may provide by rules and regulations for exemptions
from
such fees.

(b) Subject to K.S.A. 65-2420 and
amendments thereto, the national
office of vital statistics may be furnished copies or data it
requires for
national statistics. The state shall be reimbursed for the cost of
furnishing
the data. The data shall not be used for other than statistical
purposes by
the national office of vital statistics unless so authorized by the
state reg-
istrar of vital statistics.

(c) (1) The secretary shall remit
all moneys received by or for the
secretary from fees, charges or penalties to the state treasurer at
least
monthly. Upon receipt of any such remittance, other than
remittances
for fees for birth certificates, the state treasurer shall deposit
the entire
amount thereof in the state treasury and the same shall be credited
to
the state general fund.

(2) Upon receipt of any such remittance
of a fee for a birth certificate,
$3 of each such fee for the first copy of a birth certificate and
$1 of each
such fee for each additional copy of the same birth certificate
requested
at the same time shall be remitted to the state treasurer who shall
deposit
the entire amount of each such remittance in the state treasury and
credit
it to the permanent families account of the family and children
investment
fund created by K.S.A. 38-1808, and amendments thereto. Upon
receipt
of any such remittance of a fee for a death certificate, $3 of each
such
fee for the first copy of a death certificate and $1 of each such
fee for
each additional copy of the same death certificate requested at the
same
time shall be remitted to the state treasurer who shall deposit
annually
the entire amount of each such remittance in the state treasury and
credit
it to the district coroners fund created by K.S.A. 22a-245 and
amend-
ments thereto. The balance of the money received for a fee for a
birth
certificate shall be remitted to the state treasurer who shall
deposit the
entire amount of each such remittance in the state treasury and the
same
shall be credited to the state general fund.

(d) Upon receipt of any fee for a
certified copy of a birth, death, fetaldeath, marriage or divorce certificate, $1 of each such fee
shall be remittedto the state treasurer who shall deposit the entire amount of
each suchremittance in the state treasury and credit it to the vital
statistics main-tenance fee fund created by section 1, and amendments thereto.
For thepurposes of the vital statistics maintenance fee fund, the
secretary ofhealth and environment shall adopt rules and regulations
providing foran increase of $1 in the fees charged by the state registrar for
providinga certified copy of a birth, death, fetal death, marriage or
divorce certif-icate.

New Sec. 3. The activities of the
secretary of health and environment
in implementing and maintaining the vital statistics integrated
informa-
tion system in the department of health and environment and in
acquiring
financing for acquisition of equipment, technology, software,
related cap-
ital improvements for remodeling or renovating and operating
expendi-
tures for the implementation and maintenance of the vital
statistics in-
tegrated information system in the department of health and
environment
are hereby approved for the department of health and environment
for
the purposes of subsection (b) of K.S.A. 74-8905 and amendments
thereto
and the authorization of one or more series of revenue bonds by
the
Kansas development finance authority in accordance with that
statute.

Sec. 4. K.S.A. 2000 Supp. 65-2418
is hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its
publication in the statute book.